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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Niels Bohr

All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
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Enough Human Rise Science Vice
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .
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Material Property Science
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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Deep Fake Greatness Truth Wisdom
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
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Myself Science Understand
It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.
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Development Greatness History Humanity Science Study
In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.
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Audience Existence Greatness Time
Of course I don’t believe in it pointing to horseshoe on his office wall. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
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Believe Faith Understand Wall Yourself
Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be.
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Idiot Spiritual
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
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Himself Human Value
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
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Connection Creation Establishment Language Mental Photograph Poet Poetry Science
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
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Enough Polite Wrong
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.
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Belief Nature Possible Simplicity
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Laughter Serious Wisdom Yourself

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